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The human microbiome

Outline

So far, we have learned about how our diet can affect our overall health. We’ve also been introduced to the human microbiome. The human microbiome contains all the microbes that live on and in the body. This includes:

For this project, we will putting this knowledge to use to analyze how what we eat affects our microbiome and may contribute to antibiotic resistance.

Instructions

For this project, you need to track and record the food and beverages you consume for two days. You will submit this within Canvas with a “text box submission”. You also may submit a .doc, .docx or PDF through Canvas. Other formats (including email submission) will not be accepted nor graded.

For each meal, you need to make a table containing the following information:

4) If you are consuming animal products (e.g., meat, dairy, eggs), mark whether they are labelled as antibiotic free

For each day, you will then need to answer the following questions:

1)Based on what you learned from the videos, identify which foods from your meals you think may help or harm your microbiome and which are neutral (meaning they likely have no effect) (e.g., sugar can be harmful, high fiber foods and fermented foods can be helpful)

2) How much total sugar did you consume each day?The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the average adult consume no more than 25 grams of sugar each day. Based on this information, what percentage of the recommended daily allowance did you consume? (you can figure this out by dividing the number of grams you consumed by 25, and multiplying your result by 100. For example, if you consumed 30 grams of sugar, 30/25 = 1.2, multiplied by 100 is 120, so you consumed 120% of your recommended daily allowance)